i have to travel a lot for work and where i live our home airport is serviced by Southwest Airlines.

They have a great policy where you can cancel your flight up to right beforehand and get the whole amount you paid as a credit!! So if you and your donor both live in /near Southwest Airlines cities, you could book for when you think you'll do it but then be able to switch it around if you need to -- yes the rates go up if it is closer to the time of travel, but you don't pay any penalties for switching...

they don't go to canada though. but they do go to a few places near the border... I'm not sure if there are other airlines with similar policies.

Huh, this is wild! I had no idea transporting sperm was this accessible.

The websites don't mention cost. Anyone have a ballpark idea of what it would cost? I'm thinking to transport pretty faaaar... from the southern States to Canada.

We do this - we ship our KD's sperm overnight from CA. It runs about $100 for the kit and another $100 for the shipment. Of course we do two shipments a month...I cannot guarantee it works...as we have only tried this twice so far. Our midwife checked the sperm last time and they seemed pretty lively. She is going to get a better microscope - she used a fertility lens last time! Ha!Ha! Should have seen us trying to make sure the sperm did not drip back into our eyes...yuck!

I'm not that far from the border, no, but the issue is that he is going to be at various conferences around the country in April, May, and June, so us going to him won't be possible either. I can't go without DS because DP has to work, and if we all went together I'm not sure that even a domestic flight would be a lot cheaper than him flying up.

Alas.

Perhaps if it doesn't work in March we're just destined to wait until July.

Hmm, there was some discussion about this on the Queer TTC thread a month of so ago. I know that a few people have used something called "Overnight Male" (I kid you not) and had good experiences with it. Maybe try posting on Queer TTC and see if people have thoughts...